Ch 2 (Colonial America) PRACTICE TEST

Pocahontas helped to make peace between the British and Powhatan nation (for a little while at least).

• True

• False

• Who?

a movement that emphasized reason and science as the paths to knowledge

• Great Awakening

• Freedom of Speech

• Enlightenment

What document was signed in 1215 and was the first legislation to limit the power of the King of England? 

• Declaration of Independence
• Edict of Nantes
• Petition of Rights
• Magna Carta

Europeans who signed a contract with an American colonists to gain passage to North America.

• Native Americans

• Slaves

• Indentured Servants

• Colonists

A time period when the English did not strictly enforce its laws on the colonies.

• Salutary Neglect
• Rebellion
• Magna Carta
• English Bill of Neglect

The winter of 1609-1610 at Jamestown became know as the

• early voting season

• wedding season

• starving time

• white winter

What were the main cash crops in the Southern Colonies?

• wheat, rice, jasmine

• tobacco, wheat, corn

• tobacco, rice, cotton

• corn, cotton, wheat

What role did enslaved Africans play in the Southern Colonies?

• they worked as sailors aboard fishing boats

• they did the majority of the hard labor

• they did the majority of the highly skilled jobs

• they typically escaped to freedom

"Great Charter" a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, approved by King John in 1215.

• Magna Carta

• King John Charter

• English Charter

• Great Charter of 1215

A time period, mostly in the 1700's, where philosophers and thinkers thought science and reason could improve all humanity.

• Enlightenment
• Great Awakening
• American Revolution
• French Revolution